My name is Tammy-anne Deslongchamps.  I am the Founder of Deslongchamps Recovery.  I am the mother of 5 amazing kids who know what it is like to have to live through the nightmare of having a parent they love suffering through addiction.  They also know the amount of damage that it causes in their personal lives because of being susceptible to loving a parent who is self-destructing through harmful choices.  Because we lived through the nightmare of addictions together and we all suffered together because of it, we created Deslongchamps Recovery for families who need healing together. 

It was them who inspired me to get up and try, and try, and try again.  We have been through it and we know for sure that addiction is a family devastation. 

I knew I was hurting my family, I knew the chances of their adult lives being happy was a slim chance, so I searched for a long time for a program that offered services to the whole family but couldn’t find one anywhere in the world. Other programs spoke about the importance of family healing and the damages known to affect the family, and a couple offered more than one day or two of a family program, but they were only ways to support the actual member who was addicted to destructive addictions.  I knew that I couldn’t just leave my family like that to pick up the pieces I had left behind. 

I suffered through harmful addictions for over 30 years.  One day, I found myself sitting in the cold dark, crying and begging anything out there listening to me for change.  I knew I had to change or die.  I just couldn’t live another day like that, hurting so many people who loved me and needed me to survive.  

My father was an alcoholic and he had me right in the middle of his nightmare life.  I knew he loved me, but I missed out on him because he was out to destroy himself, (almost from the beginning of his life), through addictions.  I know now after making some devastating choices myself as a parent, to children I love, that if he would have known better, he would have done better.  I would have too.  

During one of my clean and sober points in 2006, my son came over to see me for a visit.  When he left, I sat down and cried because there I was all better.  I had made some huge changes within myself, and I was doing great…but what about him?  I had left a trail of destruction behind me.  He had started doing heavy drugs.  At that point I knew I needed to create a family program that healed the whole family.  In fact, most of my children have struggled through destructive addiction at one point or another, because of the choices I made during their childhood.  I am determined to help as many families as I can, avoid making the same choices I did and having to helplessly sit by and watch their children go through the same nightmare they did. 

But life still had some tough lessons to teach me before I could hold my head up and speak to you confidently and say that I have a solution to your struggles with addictions.  It took me several years, over 25 years of therapy that I found on my own through books, videos, lectures and seminars, to create a program that is a complete transformational program, and offer it to the world. 

I have come a long way to be able to confidently offer this unique program to you, I am glad that you could make it as well.

Love & Light 

-Tammy-Anne Deslongchamps